Up Fish Creek Road: & Other Stories
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 1881471608 / Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil, April 2013
Fiction. "Though these stories are anchored in events unfolding in contemporary times, their po...
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Fiction. "Though these stories are anchored in events unfolding in contemporary times, their power and beauty rest on Matlin's rhapsodic evocation of America's past. It is all that has vanished—the majestic wilderness of the land and the heroic spirit of the men who inhabited it, Native Americans and early settlers alike—that comes fully, hauntingly to life, making the present appear eviscerated not just diminished. The poetic cadence of the prose and the grandiloquent length of the sentences having a hypnotic effect, as all Matlin's work, UP FISH CREEK ROAD reads like a dream: there is no linear time; there is no continuous space; depicted events have the mystique and ineffable grandeur of myth. Being dreamlike, the sense of reality is at times incoherent, but the images are always stunning and the sensuous, tactile language that paints them, magnificent."—Irini Spanidou
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